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To paraphrase a popular expression, "fingers were made before plectra," the latter being an "improvement" on nature's contrivance.

From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Saint-George, Henry

The jacks have the early steel springs, and in 1885 traces were found in the instrument of original brass plectra, all of which point to a very early date.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various

Master Jones, who roared as loud as ten thousand men when he was hurt; or as you vill roar if I catch you calling him Mars again?—Ares, who covered seven plectra of ground?

From The Caxtons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

All of these three instruments had strings of brass, with quill plectra attached to pieces of wood.

From How the Piano Came to Be by Glover, Ellye Howell

These erected scales act on the string like so many infinitesimal plectra and thus produce in perfection the sustained sound attempted in a grosser manner by the tremolo of the mandoline.

From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Saint-George, Henry